Anglo-Ashanti wars

Anglo-Asante wars
	Part of the British colonisation of Africa
	; "Defeat of the Ashantees, by the British forces under the command of Coll. Sutherland, July 11th 1824"
Date	1823–1900
Location	Asanteman, West Africa (present-day Ghana)
Result	British victory; Establishment of the British Gold Coast; The Ashanti state became a British protectorate;
Belligerents
British Empire; Denmark (1826)	Ashanti Empire
Commanders and leaders
Alexander Gordon Laing; Charles MacCarthy †; Francis Cunningham Scott; Frederick Mitchell Hodgson; Garnet Joseph Wolseley; John Hope Smith; Robert Baden-Powell; Henry Ricketts (WIA);	Osei Bonsu; Osei Yaw Akoto; Kwaku Dua I; Kofi Karikari; Mensa Bonsu; Yaa Asantewaa; Prempeh I;

The Anglo-Ashanti wars were a series of five conflicts that took place between 1824 and 1900 between the Ashanti Empire—in the Akan interior of the Gold Coast—and the British Empire and its African allies. Despite initial Ashanti victories, the British ultimately prevailed in the conflicts, resulting in the complete annexation of the Ashanti Empire by 1900.